:>4 MOUNTAINS. 



The views from this pass and the sides of Buckden Pike, down 

 the rocky length of Wharfdale, are superb. The easy ascent 

 from Kettlewell to this pass should on no account be omitted. 



BETWEEN WHARFDALE AND NIDDERD ALE. Great Whernside 

 (2310 N., 2263 O.S.) is the culminating point; a huge mass, 

 on whose northern face one of the young streams of the Nid 

 gathers in a wide sweeping hollow. Not far to the N.E. is 

 Little Whernside (1985 N.), to the S.E. Mewpha (1891 N.). A 

 distinct, but much lower group is found further south, clustered 

 about the limestone of Greenhow Hill (1441 N.), and Nursa 

 Knot (1274 N.) ; and about the gritstone of High Crag (1325 N.), 

 Poxstones Moor (1517 N.), Barden Fell East (1471 N.), Blubber 

 Fell (1332 N.), and Beamsley Rock (1314 N.). 



The east side of Nidderdale is bordered by bold edges, which 

 have been but little subject to measurement. Their height 

 perhaps nowhere reaches 1500 feet. These hills sink southward, 

 so that Brimham Rocks measure only 990 feet N., and eastward 

 they subside by easy slopes to the general level of the Vale 

 of York. 



GROUP OF WHERNSIDE. In the south-western angle of the 

 mountainous district, on which we are now occupied, rise several 

 elevated fells, which in grandeur and variety of interest are 

 second to few in the kingdom. These are Whernside (anciently 

 Quernside), Ingleborough (anciently Ingleburg), and Penyghent, 

 once fondly imagined by the surrounding rustics to be the 

 highest hills in England. On the old and in some respects 

 excellent county map of Jeffreys, Ingleborough is said to be a mile 

 high ; Whernside is complimented with an additional height of 

 20 feet, and Penyghent humbled by the same quantity. The 

 real height of Whernside is stated by the Ordnance Survey at 

 2384 feet, of Ingleborough 2361, and of Penyghent 2270 ; but 

 Nixon gives them 2414, 2384, and 2351 feet. While Mickle 

 Fell reigns supreme over the solitary wastes in the north of 

 Yorkshire, Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent shine with 

 milder glories over magnificent scars of limestone, penetrated by 



